The Best of Betjeman

Harmondsworth. Middlesex.: Penguin/John Murray. Good. 1978. 1st Paperback Edition. Softcover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 0140047719 Paperback This book, a selection of poetry, prose and work for television, covers nearly fifty years. The success of this present selection, the first full anthology of his work to be made, lies in the discrimination with which John Guest has chosen the items to be included: these illustrate not only Sir John's development, but the many facets of his personality and the extraordinary range of his knowledge and enthusiasms. All items have been dated so that, in the half century spanned by the book, each piece of writing may be seen, as it were, in the light of its own decade. Slight browning to pages. Creases to cover.(We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions etc.) .